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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

The Power of Blogger

I didn't shower on Friday, and I'm pretty cranky when I don't get to stand in hot water for hours on a Saturday.

And, dude, water heaters are not cheap. So I wasn't real happy about replacing ours. AGAIN.

I keep saying again. See, we'd just replaced our water heater a year or two ago. I spent a couple of hours on Friday morning (before work, sans shower) trying to find the invoice or duplicate check.

Of course I couldn't. Small pieces of paper and I are not friends. They hate me. I hate them.

Anyway, I knew it'd only been a couple of years, and I knew it had been cold (because when you're standing in your garage shivering, praying hoping pleading the pilot light will stay on, you remember).

But I couldn't find the small pieces of paper.

So what did I do?

I remembered I'd blogged about it. And I went to blogger, and I looked up the post. And I can tell you that I replaced my water heater on March 27, 2009.

And again on March 5, 2011.

Who needs money anyway? Or hot water for that matter? As long as you have blogger, you're good.

No can't say that I have either. But glad you found it. What a drag to replace the water heater so much. They are one of those things, like furnaces, that are supposed to last. Hope you work it out with the installer.

Three of the four people in my household got up and took a shower this morning. Little did each of us know we were taking one at the same time. And no matter the water heater, old farm homes do not give hot water liberally, especially to three different showers. And so we all froze in our respective showers thinking the water heater was dying until we convened in the kitchen with our wet hair.

I don't use blogger, but I have gone back and searched my own blog for something like this. Sorry about your hot water heater. We had issues like this for awhile because we have a lot of minerals in our water and they build up. My husband actually has to flush our hot water heater out every once in a while or we'd still be replacing the thing each year. By the way, the flushing out process is not fun--hoses from our bathroom out the door, and yuck to the stuff that comes out!

Hey Elana- Bummer. We thought ours was going out last summer until we figured out that lowering the water temp to save money doesn't work right when it's 98 degrees outside (Our official marketing slogan- Columbia, SC- famously hot! Doesn't that make you want to visit?) Anyway, the water was too warm to trigger the heater. Have a great day! Maybe burn some incense for your oven and fridge? Things happen in threes...lol

Hurray for blogger! And booooo for broken water heaters.I email myself important things sometimes so I have a record. Though I may not have done that one. Good thinking!I'm fixing my car and my dishwasher this week (I mean I'm having someone else fix them)Booooo!

Is there still some kind of warranty on that water heater? The one in my house needs replacing, but it's 18 years old. I'd get your money back. Or have them replace it at little to no cost. I definitely call foul!

Seriously, the main purpose of my blog (for me) is to keep kind of a record of what I am thinking in terms of writing... Just.For.Me. But other stuff creeps in and well, I can totally see blogger being a great help about stuff like that!

OOoo, that sucks! We just had to replace the water heater in our rental house, and yeah, pricey! I'm also noticing a pattern here. Maybe you should set up a post for sometime in March 2013 (complete with a copy of your receipt for this heater) :D That way you'll have all the info you need when...er, if it happens again :D

Ouch. Hot water is essitnal for writers! How will you get shower-ideas without a hot shower?

The most unconventional thing I use Blogger for is cheater HTML. If I have to do something in HTML on another site (like Myspace) and I'm not sure how to pull it off, I do it in a blog draft and then copy the code.

Oh no. Remembering when you bought your water heater is an excellent use of blogger. We were just talking about water heaters in my spin class the other day. I think we were talking about the task of changing pipes in older houses.

That's awesome you found it on blogger! :) I can't think of anything off the top of my head that I've used my blog to look up. But I know I've done it before!I'm sorry about the broken water heater! NOT FUN!

That's AWESOME. Not the part where you had to replace your hot water heater, but the part where blogging helped you. No, I've never used blogger for anything unconventional. Since, although I'm random, I'm still conventional.

Mostly kidding, but I did go through this weird phase where I scrolled through months of blog posts on *ahem* certain people's blogs to check how long they were on sub before their book sold. Yeah, I'm calling it temporary insanity. I'm better now. ;)

I'm horrible at remembering certain dates and found myself looking up a key word on Blogger to find what I needed. G-mail is great for keeping track of things too. I have a couple recipes I keep forgetting to download. (Hugs)Indigo

P.S. We have a packet attached to our water heater with all the essential information.

This is true. However, are you aware that water heaters should have a pretty long warranty? Like, maybe 5 years or something. If you buy it from the same company, have them look it up. You need to insist--I did. Even if they tell you you'll have to wait a few days while they "order" the right one, tell them to do it. They will. Either you end up with a big discount, or a free water heater.

What it is about hot water heaters? A few years ago, ours went out on New Year's Eve, the day after the biggest blizzard the Front Range had seen in 10 years. Luckily, our plumber also runs a snowplow business on the side.

So far, no replacement yet. Maybe I should blog about it just to be sure...

We had hot water heater problems, which turned out to be a design flaw in the brand of heater. You might want to check into that. We had a creative plumber do a quick fix, but now I don't jump into cold showers once a month like I used to. All I have to say: check the water before you get in.

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